Blog #6

I am really glad that I got to do the genius project because I was able to learn a lot of new things. I can't pinpoint something big that I learned, but I did learn a lot of useful skills. I learned about nutrition, and about what I put in my body and how it effects my performance on the court and at school. I learned how to work out at the gym, something I have become extremely fond of. Lastly, I have actually increased my VERTICAL. I think the biggest challenge with the genius project is maintaining a fairly healthy diet. I have said this before in previous blogs but I think it was the biggest challenge. Being a kid, I didn't think that I would be able to fully give up candy, so what I did was come up with a compromise. I allowed myself 4 sugary meals every week, such as, cake at my cousins birthday party, getting ice cream with my friends on a hot day, and etc. Below is an app I used on my phone to keep track of what I ate everyday. It is called, My Fitness Pal, and when you search foods on the app, you are able to see all of the nutritional facts for all the foods.

I am pretty excited to show my friends the results. I mean I didn't increase my vertical by a foot or something crazy like that, but I made good progress. Also I think I have done a really good job with sticking to my plan. This week I haven't really been going to the gym though because of all the projects we have due this week and next week. Like I said in blog 5, I want to maintain this workout routine and diet through out the rest of the semester and summer and keep track of my results.

Blog #5

The genius project is going fine so far, we need to start working on our video though because we want to make a video of our progress from the beginning of the project to the end of the project. The things that have since my last entry is that I have gotten stronger and I have been increasing my hops, I can touch rim now. I am personally proud of the dedication I have kept to both my fitness and diet. But I feel like I can do more, like there are so many more ways to workout besides just the gym. I think that our final product will be a video of our progress. An example of this in the following video:

I think I am going to continue this project throughout the summer, but I wont want to work on just jumping. I want to work on all aspects of my game, my shooting, my handles, my defense. I struggle in a lot of aspects of the game so I want to improve those aspects so that I can help out myself and my team. I think the hardest thing will be finding gyms. I can play outside, but I would also want to get some practice on an indoor gym. Also, I think I will have my friends join me in this so that we can all get better together but also motivate each other and push each other to get to our goal. I am pretty sure the biggest issue with all of this is staying motivated and not giving up on myself. I need to first self motivate myself so that I don't fall short of my goal and give up.

Below are some locations that I can start going to to work on my game: